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Boiler scrappage to tackle air quality?

More calls for a boiler scrappage scheme to improve air quality. Photo:  andykirby79 A broader boiler scrappage scheme is being recommended to improve air quality, following a recently published report from...

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Oil boilers – no to scrappage scheme

Amber Rudd, secretary of state at the Department of Energy and Climate Change understands about the efficiencies of modern oil condensing boilers but will not support a boiler scrappage scheme...

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UKIFDA responds to government consultations

...fuel poverty as well. “We would encourage government to consider a boiler scrappage scheme as well as offering grants for insulation, new windows etc. A government supported nationwide scheme to...

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RHI target – an unrealistic goal?

...simple, all-inclusive boiler scrappage scheme would go much further than the costly and complex RHI in helping the government achieve its ambitious goal of 80% less carbon emissions by 2050. ...

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OFTEC calls on new government to be ‘more realistic’

OFTEC is calling for a ‘more joined-up carbon reduction and energy policy’ which still includes renewable technology incentives but also offers ‘more affordable measures such as a boiler scrappage scheme’...

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UKIFDA challenges Irish government on biofuels

...see more detail behind the figures in the government’s Programme. With Ireland currently experiencing economic turmoil and all the planned retrofitting changes we are concerned how the government is going...

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Banning the internal combustion engine

Last week’s government announcement with respect to an earlier ban on the internal combustion engine met with a variety of responses. Whilst the majority support the government’s ambition to decarbonise,...

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Industry responds to CCC Sixth Carbon Budget

...and timely response from the UK Government to these proposed timelines from the CCC, so businesses and the public can get on with reaching it. Government should set the right...
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In conversation with George Eustice MP

...government wasn’t really up for it, but we found the right approach and got it done.” Why did the Government assume a domestic heat strategy tied to electrification and a...

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Londoners urged to scrap their boilers

Boris Johnson is encouraging “everyone harbouring ancient boiler artefacts” to sign up to his boiler cashback scheme now Mayor of London Boris Johnson launched a new boiler scrappage scheme for...

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New UK Global Tariff gets positive response

The UK government has marked a key step on the road to an independent UK international trade policy, by announcing the UK’s new MFN tariff regime, the UK Global Tariff...

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Lobbying for a better off-grid deal

In the run-up to last month’s Budget, the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) had been lobbying the government on various fronts for the off-grid heating oil industry.  Writing to Mr...